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Nate
Niether were last night?
I found it hard to get the contrast last night.
Just like a nomral full moon the shadows were washed out so you couldn't get the detail out like you could in the last 1/4 or first 1/4, similar to your second pic.
I was hoping that the eclipse shadow would possibly give the same effect as first or last 1/4 but it actualy didn't.
If your going to show us how to do it. lets see some full moon shots with some detail [:P]
I thought I'd be under a blanket of fog here (Aberdeen, Scotland) but the sky was actually quite clear at the time. Trouble is, the eclipse was about an hour before sunrise, so the pre-dawn light took away some of the magic and there was too much urban light pollution and many buildings in the way, plus I was at work. I did see it from the office, but couldn't open the windows to get a clear shot so I didn't capture anything except in my memory.
Thanks to all here for helping each other out and sharing what you caught.
Neither were from last night, we've been having record-breaking rain the past 4 days, and the rain hasn't stopped since 10am Monday morning. Here's the fullmoon shot, like I mentioned earlier, I find the fullmoon boring. This shot is handheld, I believe I used ISO 800 andcropped 50% hence the background noise. Taken with 40D and 400 f/5.6L. Shooting with the 7D is even better because with 18 megapixels you can cropvery tight and still retain a lot of details. I find composing and cropping an image of the moon are the hardest parts, I'm still undecided between cropping very tight or leaving a lot of space to showthe vastness of space and sky.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9627611&size=lg
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Originally Posted by Sinh Nhut Nguyen
Nice full moon Nate.
First thing I found when I got the 500mm was that the full moon is boring just like you said. It is alot harder to pull detail out because there are not as many shadows. Cresents you can get more detail out of the sides.
Last night what I found was that as the moon went in to eclipse is that it was so dark, I had to shoot full open at F5.6 the exposurewas between .5 and 1 second shutter speed. I had to raise the ISO to 800 just so I could stay below 1 second. A little over a second shutter speed and the moon itself actualy started bluring the shot from its movement during the shot. I think I probably have better shots in the batch, last night it was so lateI picked a few that looked decent and posted them. Tonight I am going back through and process them.
Thanks for sharing
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Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
Hey Hawk,
I love your Lunar Shots, you really nailed it. When it got dark, I didn't raise my ISO until it was too late. I didn't realize the shots were blurry on the tiny LCD, as the moon was dragging in the photo. It seems that over 1 sec. you could really see some blur. I have a lot more shots to go through, however I'm out of hard drive space so I have to move a few things around first. I think I will have some better shots leading up to the eclipse.
I don't now about you, but I'm friggin exhausted. It was about 5:30 before I finally fell sleep.
Rich
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Originally Posted by Richard Lane
I was able to get a good 2 hours of sleep, 30 minutes more if you count all the times I hit the snooze on the alarm[C]
Rick those shots are fantastic mate. Really nice. I guess it helps having the 500mm to play with.
This is one in full eclipse at 2:36 am it was F5.6, shutter 0.5, ISO 800
I had some time to go through and do some sorting now. This one is one of the best. I added contrast and sharpness. Messed with the white balance, but who knows if this is right I am just making a guess that it is correct.
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HD - VERY NICE!! [Y]
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Originally Posted by ddt0725
Concur---Nice Job HD